658614 external_news 1654022349 1654028289 <![CDATA[Putin Propagates State Terror as a National Tradition]]> Dina Khapaeva, professor and director of the Russian program in the School of Modern Languages, discussed Putin and the war in Ukraine with the German television news channel n-tv. She spoke about Putin's "memory politics," his use of state terror as a "national tradition," and the fate of the country following the war in Ukraine. The article, titled "Putin propagiert Staatsterror als nationale Tradition" [Putin Propagates State Terror as a National Tradition], was published on May 29, 2022. 

An excerpt: 

"The whole point of Putin's memory politics is to make Russians believe that the Russian Middle Ages was a great society, a wonderful alternative to democracy, much better than democracy. The goal of this memory politics is the restoration of an empire, the militarization of public opinion, and the propagation of state terror as a great national tradition."

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